00:00I'm Larry Herb, Xbox Live's Major Nelson. I'm here with Mikey Barr from the Xbox Engineering Team. Mike, great to
00:04see you.
00:05Great to be here, Larry.
00:05Mike, we've got a bunch of new features we're going to talk about, but first I want to talk about
00:09some of the great features that our preview members are already enjoying, including Cortana.
00:13Yeah, Cortana's on Xbox. A lot of preview members are using it now. Hey Cortana's the command. It does a
00:18couple of things. One, it keeps people in the game. You don't have to go to a lot of menus.
00:22Hey Cortana, what's Larry Herb doing? Kind of tells me I can use real names or gamer tags. A lot
00:27of great exciting features.
00:28Another area I'm really excited about is the wonderful work your team has done around Collection. I spend a lot
00:33of time there, you know, installing a game or looking for a game, and this is really cool stuff. Tell
00:38us about that.
00:38Yeah, there's been a lot of fan feedback about Collection, and so a lot of fans will be happy about
00:42this one, but bringing ready to install out at a higher level so you can easily see that, letting you
00:47see more of your games at one time, and then when you're downloading something, letting you see how fast it's
00:52downloading and the status right from the dash.
00:53I also want to point out that My Games and Apps is now on the right-hand side there, right
00:57at the top, so I can get to it immediately.
00:59Yep, that's right.
00:59Now, I want to talk about Facebook Friend Finder. Quickly go over that for me, would you?
01:04Yeah, Facebook Friend Finder's out now for the Xbox app, so a lot of people are already using it. On
01:08the console, it'll be just exactly the same way.
01:10Associate your Facebook account with your Xbox Live account, and all of a sudden you see all your friends on
01:14Facebook that play Xbox Live. You can friend them and have a great time together.
01:18Another area your team has done some great work on is really broadening the scope and connecting with more games,
01:24especially PC gamers.
01:25Yeah, you know, I'm a big PC gamer myself, and one of the things about being in the Xbox app
01:29or on the console is if you're playing a PC game, I'd like to see what you're doing.
01:32I'd like to see the screenshots, the game DVR clips that you create, and so for the top PC games,
01:36we're going to enable that.
01:37If you're playing a PC game, I'll see it. If you share something, all your friends will see it. It
01:41really just blends the gap between PC gaming and Xbox Live gaming. You want to make those one thing.
01:46Now, E3 is all about news, and the platform team has some great news this week, including a highly requested
01:51one, Language and Region Unlock.
01:53Yeah, this is the ability for an Xbox One customer to separate their language from their region, no matter where
01:59they are in the world.
02:00Now, this is a great feature for some folks over in Europe, because they're traveling around a lot.
02:05Perhaps they're in one country, but they want to use their home language or vice versa. They're able to do
02:09that now, right?
02:10Yeah, a lot of our European fans have asked for this feature. We're happy to deliver it.
02:13There's a lot of folks out there that are using Looking for Group websites, LFG. We're bringing a feature like
02:18that to Xbox One.
02:19That's right. One of the things fans have told us is, hey, I have 30 minutes. I get home. Some
02:24of my friends aren't on.
02:24How do I find people to accomplish something in a game?
02:28And so we'll bring Looking for Group technology into Xbox One and the Xbox app that works across any PC
02:33game and, of course, your Xbox games.
02:35So this augments our existing matchmaking system, but it makes it even better because I can go in and post
02:39exactly what I'm looking for.
02:40Yeah, for example, you and I play The Division a lot. If we get home and none of our friends
02:44are on, but we need two more people that are gear level 200 or higher, we can post that, get
02:49two more people, get in and accomplish that in our game.
02:51Another great social feature is clubs. Tell us about those.
02:54Yeah, you know, clubs are designed to let people meet other people that love to do the same things they
02:58do. So, for example, I'm a big Seahawks fan. I can create a Seahawks club, invite anybody I want into
03:04it.
03:04Another example, I've been playing games with the same group of people for about 15 years, and I'm going to
03:09invite them into a club, make it private so we can share screenshots, DVR clips, persistent chat so that we
03:15can communicate all the time together. It's really going to be a great feature.
03:18Now, I want to turn our attention to competitive gaming, Xbox Arena. New feature, but tell us about that.
03:23Yeah, we announced the Xbox Tournament platform at GDC, and we've been working with developers since then. One of the
03:28challenges and pieces of feedback we got from our fans is that esports is really only for the elite sponsored
03:33teams out there that make millions of dollars in these tournaments.
03:36We wanted to make sure we built Xbox Arena, designed for the casual person that plays Halo maybe once a
03:41week, all the way up to the professional teams.
03:43How do I find it in the Xbox?
03:45Yeah, just go to the game hub of your favorite game, you'll see the possible tournaments there, you can register,
03:49and then go start playing.
03:51A couple hours before you're ready to play, you'll get a toast that says, hey, your match is online, so
03:55you know you have time to get ready to play.
03:57Tell us about some of the partners we can expect.
03:59Yeah, of course we're working with a lot of developers. Microsoft Studios will be there with the Coalition bringing Gears,
04:05and of course 343 bringing Halo.
04:07Hi-Rez's Smite will come to Xbox Arena. We're working with Wargaming on World of Tanks, a huge game that
04:12will be a tournament platform for us.
04:14And lastly, I'm really excited to be partnering with EA on some of their biggest games.
04:19When can we get our hands on these new features?
04:21Yeah, the team's working really hard. Happy to say all of this will come this year.
04:25Great stuff. Thanks, Mike.
04:26Thank you.
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